Analysis | Indictment could propel Trump closer to 2024 Republican nomination
- Donald Trump was indicted for attempting to overturn the 2020 US election, the third criminal case against him
- Despite the indictments, Trump remains the clear front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination
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US former president Donald Trump indicted on 4 charges in his role to overturn 2020 election results
Donald Trump’s indictment for his alleged role in efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat will likely fuel his march toward the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, analysts and party strategists say.
“This will rally his supporters to his talking points – about how the establishment and the ‘deep state’ are against him and against them,” Stu Rothenberg, a non-partisan political analyst, said before the indictment was handed down.
Opinion polls show Republican support for Trump surging since the first of three indictments was issued in March. He is far and away the front-runner, leading second-place Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, by close to 30 percentage points.
Trump, the former president, has made the indictments a central plank of his campaign platform, portraying himself as the target of a biased justice system, the first former president in US history to face criminal charges.
